As part of a journalism course at Canada’s University of Western Ontario, journalism students teamed up with citizen scientists, not only to report on their work, but to also share the results with two media sites rabble.ca and The Tyee.
The students spent two months researching what citizen scientists did, talking to them and professional scientists around the world, and putting together reports on the results.
The two media sites are now publishing the results of the students’ work.
RCI’s Wojtek Gwiazda spoke to Wayne MacPhail who taught the students at the University, about the project and about the approach of open journalism they used in their reporting. Apart from teaching, MacPhail is also a consultant in emerging media.
More information:
Citizen Science web site – westerncitsci.tumblr.com
Rabble.ca – Citizen Science series – here
The Tyee – Citizen Science series – here
Wayne MacPhail – w8nc.com
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